This article explains how to get up and running with utorrent Bit Torrent efficiently. It shows how to battle ISP's throttling bittorrent speed, optimize download speed and other ways to speed up utorrent and increase utorrent download speed.

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Introduction

This is a tutorial step by step guide on how to speed up uTorrent's configuration, a popular BitTorrent software.

What's BitTorrent? Well, let's put it this way - What are the options when you want to send a 4.3GB DVD folder to your family, relatives and friends? Rapidshare? Mega? Or <gulp>... Skype? Free media file hosts have some limits either in the maximum data you can download per day, or the constant nagging to buy their premium service. And Skype is not designed for sending such large files - just imagine if the file stalled at the 97% mark - You will need to resend the entire file! MSN's Shared Folders had some promise but it was later replaced by OneDrive, which limits each file to 2GB, although it gives 15GB of space.

So what other alternative is there? There's FTP. Or you can take a risk and send it via Skype. Or you can split the file in segments and upload it to a OneDrive, RapidShare, Mega or other file hosting server.

If you have a web hosting server, you can upload it to there. But chances are your web host will not be too happy about it as their terms of service do not allow you to share resource intensive files.

Enter Bittorrent - a very efficient peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing protocol to share your files with anyone, anywhere. You can share files privately within only people you choose, or publicly with anyone on the Internet. The only requirement is a internet connection. With uTorrent, BitTorrent has never got easier.

This guide gets you up to maximum speed with BitTorrent using uTorrent and is great for beginners. It details all the steps from downloading to optimizing your utorrent and Windows settings. Many people have used and think they are running with optimized settings, even then, it is advised to read through this guide and see what you may have missed to get the best configuration settings.

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Starting off with Bittorrent

Our top recommended BitTorrent client software, in order of preference is as follows

checks with other peers to see if they know of any other peers. More Peers = More Speed! (provided the peers are seeds and are not choked)

Protocol Encryption, Half-Open Connections and uTP UDP Packet Protocol
This is the major speed booster if your Internet Service Provider (ISP) throttles BitTorrent traffic, allowing bypassing of ISP throttling. It can do wonders on torrents with high
seeds and can give high speeds especially if your peers are using the top 3 clients mentioned above, as those are the popular ones that support this standard.

A list of commonly known ISPs who throttle BitTorrent can be found here. You can even do an online test to verify if your ISP throttles BitTorrent connections.

Capping Upload Speed
Uploading data to other peers at full throttle will severely limit your download rate. This is one key element we have to adjust for a good download / upload ratio. Unless you are purely seeding and not using your computer for other tasks, limit your upload to 80% of full bandwidth.

Distributed Hash Table (DHT)
Similar to Peer Exchange, it also obtains more peers for you to download from. If the tracker is down, and the torrent is not private, you can depend on DHT to continue downloading!

Local Peer Discovery
Searches for peers with the same Internet Service Provider (ISP) as you. Connecting to a peer in the same network (or ISP) means you can get the maximum accelerated speed from that peer, assuming he is generous with his uploads.

What We Need

An Internet Connection and its maximum download and upload speed. If you are not sure of your download/upload speeds, visit http://www.speedtest.net/ to run a speed test.
Select a download location closest to you, especially if you are outside the US. The Recommended Server (golden pyramid) works out most of the time.

Partial SpeedTest.net Screen Shot: Clicking the "Begin Test" works out most of the time

Once the test is done, you get the results:

Results of the speed test

Note down the numbers under Download (a) and Upload (b) including the unit; in this case, Mbps. You will need them later.

Patched TCPIP.sys to allow more concurrent half-open connections. Windows XP SP2 and Vista limits the number of half-open connections to 10.

Windows 7 users: This patcher is NOT required for Windows 7 as there is no such limitation in Windows 7.

NOTE: This step has been generally found not to make any improvements in Bittorrent speed. In fact, it can even cause problems with certain routers such as auto-restarting and stalling of internet access. Do this only as a last resort.

To increase the limit, there are two freely available patchers:

Lvllord Patch - ONLY for Windows XP Users (NOT Vista/Windows 7 users, see next step for Vista users) UPDATE: There has been a recent Automatic Update (MS08-001) released on January 8 2008 that addresses some network security concerns. The below has NOT been tested with the latest TCPIP.SYS (v5.0.2195.7147) file. Update:The patch has been tested with KB941644 (an automatic update) and works perfectly!

Open the file and run the program located inside the archive, agreeing to the security warning.

Some text should scroll by in a MS-DOS window, after it ends, type C.

Enter 100 for the number of concurrent half-open connections and press Enter.

Type Y and the file should be patched. Cancel any Windows XP warnings that should appear, it is part of Microsoft's way of ensuring its files are not tampered with (the utility tampers with them on purpose to change the limit).

Download the EXE file in the link titled Half-open limit fix 4.2 (as of July 2014)

Open the folder where you saved the file and run the file you downloaded

Under 'New value', set it to 100 (if it is not already set)

Set the new value to 100

Click 'Add to tcpip.sys'

Click OK.

Click OK again. Cancel any Windows warnings that may appear, it is part of Microsoft's way of ensuring its files are not tampered with (the utility tampers with them on purpose to change the limit).

Restart your computer.

If something is not working right (e.g. Internet access does not work anymore) and you want to undo the changes, run the software again and click "Restore original file".

NOTE: The patchers above are known to trigger anti-virus alerts. Ignore them. The alerts are triggered due to the patcher making changes to the way Windows works hence making the anti-virus software suspicious.

A BitTorrent software client - We recommend uTorrent. This guide uses uTorrent for the tutorial.

And finally, some torrents to kick off a download. A sample torrent file will be provided later.

Download

As of July 2014, the latest Windows version is 3.4.2. For MAC users, some of these tips do not apply to you. Please see the FAQ below.

If any security dialogs appear, click Run as we know this is a safe file.

Configuring uTorrent

The configuration part is where most people mess up. Most of us will just click through the dialogs accepting the default values. This may apply to some of us, but not the majority. The below installation guide uses uTorrent Version 3.4.2. Older versions may have some steps missing.

Run the program. Ignore the security warning if any appears (Click Run) - we know perfectly well that the file is legitimate.

User Account Control (UAC) may pop up to ask whether to allow uTorrent ("Program Name") to make changes to your computer. If so, click "Yes".

You get the welcome screen when it runs:

Welcome screen (note: version number may be different if you have a newer/older version)

Click Next. A scam warning will appear as many people have been tricked into paying for utorrent which is supposed to be free in the first place.

Anyway, click Next.

New to utorrent version 1.8.3 onwards - a license agreement! This used to be as a link in the Install location.

License Agreement

Read all the legal mambo jambo (yea right!). Click I Agree to continue.

It will give the following dialog:

Choose Install Location

You want the program to be easily accessible, don't you? Click Next > with the default options and uTorrent shortcut s will be created in your desktop, quick launch and start menu, as well as installing it to a permanent location.

uTorrent Setup asks your permission to start automatically. Prior to version 2.0, it will ask for permission to associate with torrent files too.

Configuration

All are fine except perhaps for the last one - 'Start utorrent when Windows starts up'. This used to be optional but with version 1.8.3 onwards, utorrent is set by default to start along when Windows starts. This may irk some users, especially if you pay for Internet Access by the megabyte. How? If you close uTorrent after you are done with it without deleting the torrent and restart your computer, utorrent starts in the background and continues seeding the torrents.

Bottom line? Uncheck the last box unless you want uTorrent to be always running and 'seed' your torrents.

The latest releases of uTorrent may now come with some free download. We got The Internet's Own Boy documentary "free" download in our trial run as below.

FREE, or is it really?

This is NOT required, 100% optional and will NOT affect your download/upload speeds. Then why is uTorrent including this? Because it gets paid for every installation and is a means of revenue for the company.

Make your choice (tick or untick the box) and click Next >

The latest releases of uTorrent now come bundled with Spigot's Search Protection ((previously was uTorrent Browser Bar or Ask.Com Toolbar) or some other adware

Spigot's Search Protection

Once again, this is NOT required, 100% optional and will NOT affect your download/upload speeds.

Then why is uTorrent including this? Because it gets paid for every installation and is a means of revenue for the company. So it is entirely up to you whether you want it. If you find that you don't like it later on, you can remove the software from Add/Remove programs later on without affecting uTorrent.

Click the desired button.

Yet another bundled "free" software. The latest releases of uTorrent now come bundled with PC Speed Up software

PC Speed Up

Once again, this is NOT required, 100% optional and will NOT affect your download/upload speeds.

Then why is uTorrent including this? Because it gets paid for every installation and is a means of revenue for the company. So it is entirely up to you whether you want it. If you find that you don't like it later on, you can remove the software from Add/Remove programs later on without affecting uTorrent.

Click the desired choice and then click Finish.

This step only applies for versions older than utorrent v1.8.2. It ensures that utorrent is set to handle all torrent files automatically.

Making uTorrent the default application for torrent files

Click Yes. On current versions of uTorrent, this is done automatically.

You now see the full interface of the uTorrent window. If you had opted for the free downloads and softwares, it may take some time and the full interface with the torrent torrent will also start downloading as shown below.

The full interface with the free torrent starting

Go to Options > Setup Guide.

uTorrent Speed Guide (v2 redesign)

Uncheck 'Bandwidth' since you already know your Internet connection speed limits from the Speedtest.net tests above. We do not recommend using uTorrent's bandwidth tests as the servers are not as globalized as Speedtest.net.

Now the value that we are interested in right now is the dropdown labelled 'Your Upload Speed', which is using the unit of kbit/s (kilobits per second). If you have trouble understanding your speed, consider this: Internet Explorer shows download speed as KBps when you download a file.

There is a big difference between 5Kbps (kilobits) and 5KBps (kilobytes). Make sure you got the right values in kbps (not kBps, the cAsE of 'b' matters) . Use Google Calculator if you need help with conversions. .

Click the 'Current Settings - (Unlimited)' dropdown box

Preset Speed Settings on clicking Current Settings

The authors of uTorrent have been very helpful in providing a list of predefined values. Your connection should be near to one of the above categories. Each value (e.g. "28.8kbit/s (Dial-up)") means that your download is unlimited and your upload is limited to the number indicated there (e.g. 28.8kbps, which is 3.6KBps by Google Calculator).

With your results of the speed test you did above, select the closest upload speed from the list. Select a value lower than your upload speed. For example, if your upload is 31.6 kbit/s, you would select 28.8kbit/s. Once you select a value, uTorrent instantly adjusts the "uTorrent Bandwidth Configuration " area with recommended values for your upload speed. 1Mbit (1 megabit) is equivalent to 1024kbit (1024 kilobits) by Google Calculator.

We're not finished yet.

Note: The default download speed in utorrent is Unlimited. Even if your download is limited in some way, it is always better to leave it at unlimited to get maximum download speeds. However, if you need to limit your download speeds, right-click the utorrent icon on the system tray (bottom right), click Download Limit and set accordingly. You can also set this in the Preferences dialog.

Note: uTorrent randomly generates a port number in Current Port. This guide assumes the port number to be 55641 - but you can substitute it with the number uTorrent shows.

Click Run Tests.

Port forwarding is important. After you click on "Run Tests", uTorrent will advise you of possible issues that could impact your download speed. If you have trouble running the test (e.g. receive results similar to "Results: Port is not open (you are still able to download)" or "Neither NAT-PMP nor UPnP is enabled. Please check your preferences.", it could be due to one or more of the following reasons:

Home Router
If you are running a router (sometimes called wireless access point) at home, you will have to configure it to route all TCP / UDP BitTorrent traffic to port 55641 to your computer. If so, visit this page for a guide on how to port forward. Note, you do not need to download any software from them. Click the router you are using, then the model number in the next page and then the uTorrent application and follow instructions. When following the guide and the router asks for a range of ports to forward, simply specify 55641 to 55641 (remember to substitute it with the actual port number you are using). Take care not to download any software from the site as it is not required

Personal Firewall
If you are running a firewall software such as Norton Internet Security, Norton 360, Kaspersky, Outpost Firewall, ZoneAlarm, etc, then configure your firewall such that uTorrent has access to port 55641. This is normally accomplished by starting up utorrent. The firewall should spring up an access alert. Simply select the option to "Always Allow" to allow the program to access the Internet. Messages such as "utorrent wants to act as a server" or "utorrent is attempting to listen for connections" must be allowed as well. In fact, if the program in question is utorrent, you should always check "Allow" no matter what request it is.

Windows Firewall Users
uTorrent will automatically configure Windows Firewall for you so there is no action needed from you.

Corporate Firewall
Are you running this software in a corporate network? Bad news - you have to inform the admin that you want the port to be forwarded to your computer. The good news - you can still go by without port forwarding, but speeds will not be optimal.

Utorrent.Com Port Forward Function Website has a problem
Yes, especially if you are accessing the Internet through a transparent proxy that your ISP forces you to use. This simply means that the website is checking for open ports at the wrong computer. To verify if this is the case, uTorrent port checker runs an alternative port checker at port 16000, which you can access by using the form below:

uTorrent Port Checker

Enter the port number in this box:
and click
.

Sometimes the utorrent port checker server may be down - you may get 'page cannot be displayed' or a blank page 'unable to connect' if this is so. If this is the case, the only way to check is to run the actual torrent.

Having done all the above, if the website still says that it has problems accessing the port, the ultimate test will be when we do a test torrent download. For now, click on Save & Close. If the button is disabled, reselect the upload speed value and the button should enable again.

Now you see the full uTorrent window in full glamour.

Starting a simple torrent

We need to start a simple download, and the one that will be using is a 650MB file of Ubuntu! It is a perfectly legal and free file to download so that we wouldn't get into trouble with Dreamhost, Bootstrike's web hosting company. We will be downloading this file purely for testing and delete it later on (as it is of no use to us)

Minimize uTorrent for now. Notice that it resides on the system tray (bottom right) automatically.

Look at the column labeled "complete". Find the row with the largest value. A quick way is to scroll down and scan for a 3 digit figure in that column. Or perform a search for the string 'desktop-i386.iso' and look for a filename that starts with "ubuntu-" and ends with "desktop-i386.iso".

Now download the torrent - click the link in the 2nd column of that row

You should get this dialog:

The IE8 "Save As" Box for torrent files

This is the metadata file, it contains information on the file you want to download eventually. That is why the file size is so small. We want uTorrent to automatically start downloading it, so click Open.

NOTE: The "Name and Type" may differ on your system. This is normal, as Ubuntu is frequently updated

NOTE: If the Open button does not appear, save the file in your desktop. Then start utorrent, File > Open torrent and open the torrent you saved. Delete the torrent file in the desktop as uTorrent automatically makes a copy of it.

If you get the below warning, simply click Allow

A website wants to open web content using this program on your computer

The file opens with uTorrent which automatically pops up this dialog

Add New Torrent dialog box

All values are automatically filled in for you. Under Save In, select where you want to download the files to by clicking "...". Optionally, under Torrent Contents,
select files that you don't want to download - if the download has many files which in this case does not.

All looking good, click OK.

Progress of the Download

Click on the Ubuntu torrent (the only item in the list) to view more information on it and click on the Info tab below. You will see all the values at the bottom suddenly burst with activity!

uTorrent with one torrent downloading (plus another torrent for the free content)

Looks like the torrent has a total of 59 seeds and 615 downloaders (also known as leechers). 59 seeds is a lot (but some torrents can have 10000+ seeds, depending on popularity). The higher the number of seeds vs the number of leechers, the faster you can expect your download!

A seed is a term used to refer to peers whose computers are only sharing the complete file with no downloading activity.

However, after running for 5 minutes, the speed refuses to go above 20 KB/s, which is not possible for a highly seeded torrent. Could it be our ISP throttling?

uTorrent by default disables protocol encryption. We need to enable this so that the ISP's packet shaping hardware will detect our BitTorrent traffic as normal traffic and hopefully let it pass.

Click on Options, Preferences.

Click on BitTorrent in the left column

You should get a dialog similar to one below

Bittorrent Preferences Dialog Box

The one we are concerned about is Protocol Encryption. Set the Outgoing to Enabled.

Click on Advanced on the left column.

If you did NOT patch your TCPIP.sys to allow more concurrent half-open connections above, SKIP this step.

Advanced Settings Dialog Box

Change "net.max_halfopen" value to 50 by selecting the line, modifying the value at the bottom to 50 and clicking Set.

NOTE: It is normal for a asterisk(*) to appear. This is to indicate that the value has been changed from the default value.

From uTorrent version 1.8.3 onwards, a new UDP protocol named uTP was introduced which sends UDP packets as well as TCP packets. The main benefit is that it provides a new avenue of bypassing ISP throttling limits resulting in.. what else? SPEED!

At the same Advanced screen, Change "bt.transp_disposition" value to 255 by selecting the line, modifying the value at the bottom to 255 and clicking Set.

Click OK. Stop all torrents (red stop button on toolbar on top), wait 10 seconds, and Start the torrent (green play button on toolbar). Now let's watch the speeds.

Hopefully, the above changes will improve speeds. Ultimately, it depends on the number of seeders and peers with high upload rate. Remember, you must upload to enjoy good download rates, but not so high that it affects download speed. Experiment.

Bonus Tip!

This part only applies for public torrents. It is useless for private torrents as they specifically prohibit sharing with other trackers.

The tip: Look for more public tracker servers that have the file. However, this tip does not work for torrents that are private i.e. the DHT Tracker shows 'not allowed' for the torrent.

Before:

Only one tracker under Trackers

After getting the same torrent from torrentz.com (a site that consolidates multiple trackers into one torrent file)

Many tracker servers!

Needless to say, the speed increased tenfold! Now the question: how do you find more torrents of the same kind? There are several ways, via Torrentz and... Google! Here's how to make your search easier.

Highlight the row of the torrent by clicking on the torrent name

Click on the Info tab at the bottom of the window

There should be a field labeled Hash near to the bottom with a string of 40 alphanumeric characters. Right-click the value of this field and click Copy.

Hash value of a torrent

Now you have the hash value of your torrent. With this hash, you can perform searches to find the exact torrent with additional trackers at most torrent sites. There can be many versions of a torrent with some differences. You cannot combine different versions (with different hashes) of a torrent into one torrent. This is why we are using this hash to get the exact same torrent with hopefully more unique trackers.

Finding More Trackers Via Torrentz.com

Paste the hash into the search box. To paste the value, right-click the search box, and click Paste. Click Search.

You should be automatically be brought to the torrent page, if Torrentz has a record for it.

Find the keyword 'You can get a µTorrent compatible list here' at that page.

Click the link highlighted in the red box above

Click the link it points to. You should get a list of trackers.

Right-click any of the text. Click 'Select All'

Right-click any of the selected text again. Click 'Copy'

Go to uTorrent and double-click the row of the torrent that want to add the list to

In the box that pops out, go to the General tab (if it isn't already there)

There should be a text box there labelled Trackers. Place the cursor at the end of this box and hit Enter to add a new line

Right-click the new line and click 'Paste' to paste the list of new trackers. Don't worry if there are duplicates.

Click 'OK'

For the more determined, you can also search Google with the torrent hash to find more trackers.

Bonus Tip 2!

Optimize your TCP settings. Speedguide.net provides free utilities to make this step as easy as cake. We also have a mirror of the file.

Optimize TCP settings for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7

TCP Optimizer Main Window

Steps to optimize your internet connection.

First, download or visit the official site here and extract the files to any folder.

Double-click on the TCPOptimizer application in the folder to launch it

At the bottom of the window, click "Optimal"

At the top of the window, drag the slider to select your connection speed. If you are not sure, run the speed test. Use the value that you get for the Download field (which is in kb/s) and set the slider to it.

If you are using ADSL, check with your Internet Service Provider whether it is based on PPPoE or PPPoA. You may also be able to obtain the information via your router's homepage. If your connection is based on PPPoE, tick the PPPoE box.

Under the "Network Adapter selection" box, select the network adapter you use to connect to the Internet. If you are unsure, go to Start > Control Panel > Network Connections. Your connection should be listed there. Most of the time, it is Local Area Connection. Select the entry and the status bar at the bottom should display the network adapter name.

Click 'Apply Changes' at the bottom of the window.

Ensure that 'Backup' is checked and click OK at the next confirmation box that appears.

Once the changes are done, reboot your system

This would have optimized your settings according to your internet connection you have.

Further Tips You Can Try For Optimum Speed

Tweaks that can improve your speed:

There should be a green tick at the bottom, not a exclamation mark as below.

Unconnectable situation

If uTorrent keeps showing this or "No incoming connections - Unless the icon turns green, it could indicate a problem with your network configuration" even after 5 minutes, check the possible causes.

To get more peers, right-click the entry on the list, and click Update Tracker (if disabled or grayed out - you need to wait for some time). Do this especially if you are on a private tracker before you exit the application, so that your ratio is maintained.

Check the Availability column for the torrent. If it is less than 1, chances are that the torrent is new and the original uploader is still uploading. However, if it remains at a value less than 1 (eg, 0.98) for more than a day, either the torrent does not have seeds or it is a fake. (Thanks TTbarDJ)

Exit uTorrent. Reset your internet connection by switching off and on the modem and router (if applicable) and then firing up uTorrent again.

Download the latest network driver, uninstall the current one and install back the latest network driver you downloaded by using Device Manager in Start > Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager. This CAN cause your internet to break if you update with the wrong drivers, so be careful!

Make sure you did not set a download limit accidentally! Many people unknowingly set the download limit when they actually intended to set the upload limit in the right-click menu of the tray icon. To check, Options > Preferences > Bandwidth > Global Download Rate Limiting > Set to "0" > OK

The following routers are known to cause problems with uTorrent: Linksys WRT54G, Linksys WRT54GL , Linksys WRT54GGS and D-Link DI-514 . If you have any of this routers, you may want to read this page. As of August 2010, the linked page does not show any of the incompatible hardware (it did in the past) and has been removed for some reason.

Exit uTorrent. Power off your router and modem and power it on back after about 30 seconds. This has made improvements in speed for some people.

Tweaks that can improve or LOWER your speed:

Some people have reported speed increases using an older version of utorrent, specifically utorrent version 1.6. You can download it from our servers at Bootstrike.com and try that instead.

Setting a high upload can sometimes slow down a fast torrent. For example, in our ADSL connection, if we upload at 10KB/s we can get up to 350KB/s. If we upload at 30KB/s, the download speed gets limited to 200KB/s. The total upload available to me is 60KB/s.

This is where you have to experiment by setting a low upload rate (from 10 at Options > Preferences > Bandwidth > Maximum upload rate) and watching if the speeds increase for 5 minutes, especially if the torrent is heavily seeded.

But remember, you must upload in order for peers to share their downloaded data with you. It is possible to set a very low upload, but the chance of peers sending you their data will decrease, pulling down your download speed.

Some people have reported speed increases by setting the peer.lazy_bitfield setting to false in Options > Preferences > Advanced.

Change the Options > Preferences > Bittorrent > Protocol Encryption to Forced. This will force encryption on all outgoing packets and will not fallback to un-encrypted mode if the peer refuses to co-operate. Good for connecting to only encryption-enabled peers. Avoid doing this for torrents with low peers/seeds.

Remove the check for Options > Preferences > Bittorrent > Protocol Encryption > Allow Incoming Legacy Connections. This will make all your outgoing and incoming packets fully encrypted, except for tracker communications. Peers who are using a torrent software that doesn't support encryption are dropped. Avoid doing this for torrents with low peers/seeds.

Private trackers, especially those that specifically tell utorrent to disable DHT (effectively disabling Peer Exchange and Local Peer Discovery too), can affect speeds negatively. You can tell if the torrent is private by selecting the torrent and looking at the DHT value. If it says "disabled", it is a private torrent.

That said, the main reason private trackers exist is because they enforce sharing rules that tries to prevent a person from downloading a torrent and running off without uploading back the same amount of data he downloaded.

For new and popular torrents on such trackers, you may be able to get good speeds as everyone will be trying to increase their upload/download ratio. Again, experiment. The key point here is the seeds/leechers ratio and the popularity of them in public and private trackers.

Increase the number of connections in Options > Preferences > Bandwidth > Number of Connections. Experiment by increasing the number of global/max connections in steps of 25.

Some people use software such as Peer Guardian or Protowall to 'protect' from law spy computers. At last check, Peer Guardian blocks about 773,125,915 out of 4,294,967,296 possible IPv4 addresses. That is about 18% of the whole Internet World Wide Web! Which means lesser peers and that means lower speeds! For the protection it claims to offer, speed is a compromise.

Type this into the prompt:
netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disable

You should get a "Ok." response.

Restart your system.

If you have a proxy server such as a local ISP's one, using it has helped many people improve their speeds. Go to Options > Preferences > Connection. Under 'Proxy Server', select the Type as HTTP and specify your proxy and port. Check the box 'Use proxy server for peer-to-peer connections'. Press OK and restart uTorrent.

UTP has been reported to cause problems. To fully disable UTP, go to Options > Preferences > Advanced and set bt.transp_disposition to 5.

Readers' Suggestions for Improving Speed

The following tips were posted in the comments below and found to be useful for some readers. You can try them out too.

Jen says: If Utorrent is really slow on Vista (on my computer everything was really slow... I.E, Outlook) try disabling IPv6. Go to Control Panel > Network and Sharing Centre. Click on view Status for your connection, then properties and uncheck Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6) then OK it etc. I didn't need to restart Utorrent or do anything else. The download I was on jumped from 5k right up to 200.

Jen says: Another one and it's really simple! I spent many an evening trying like hell to get my torrents to run faster and wasn't getting anywhere. a couple of weeks ago my ex was trying to download at 8pm and he was getting DL speeds like a 512 connection trouble is he's on an 8mb line. We couldn't figure it out and quite randomly whilst trying to figure it I checked the TOC for his ISP it turned out they restrict bandwidth at certain times, in his case 6pm to 9pm. Obviously I checked my ISP and mine is set 7pm to 10pm.

Masterkio says:
Change the following in the Advanced tab of uTorrent preferences peer. disconnect_inactive_interval
from 300 to 600.
You should be able to get a little bit more speed by doing this.

ColdBurn says: Download only a single torrent at one time. At uTorrent > Options > Preferences > Bandwidth, set 'Global maximum number of connections' and 'Maximum number of connected peers per torrent' to 375.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1)

What is the best port to open for uTorrent?
There's no "best port" or good ports . All ports are suitable for use with uTorrent, unless you are running a program that is using the port. Some recommend a port number more than 1024, but it does not matter as long as the port is not used by any other program.

However, feel free to change the default port of it by going to Options > Preferences > Connection and adjusting the "Port used for incoming connections" as necessary. Remember to re-adjust your port forwarding settings in your firewall and router too.

2)

I have tried all the above and my speeds are still slow! In fact, it got worse! What can I do?
Try downloading a different torrent. A high ratio of seeds to leechers (Eg 2000 seeds to 10 leechers) will make a big difference in speeds. Make sure there is a green light at the bottom or check the possible causes.

Verify your speed by running a speed test from different locations to ensure your connection is fast to the major locations in the world. For example, if you are downloading Chinese torrents, you should select a download location from China (or somewhere nearby) in the speed test.

Finally, try enabling Forced encryption and performing the extra things outlined here. If speeds still do not improve, we are also not aware of the cause. Perhaps your ISP has managed to break encryption in BitTorrent traffic and is limiting bittorrent connections (e.g. Comcast), especially if they are in this list of Bad ISPs. Or your ISP is limiting your connection speeds (Try a speed test to a local server to verify this). Do let us know in the comments if you have found a way to solve your problems even with the suggestions above.

One more thing - it has been reported that reinstalling the network driver has made speed differences for many people. To reinstall, go to Control Panel, Network Connections and locate your network connection - most of the time it should be "Local Area Connection 1". Right-click the icon, Properties and note down the name under "Connect Using". There are two ways to update drivers:

AUTOMATICALLY: Click Configure > Driver > Update Driver. Allow the system to connect to Microsoft Online to check for drivers. Only manufacturers who send their drivers for WHQL certification can be updated using this method.

MANUALLY: Locate the latest driver for this device by going to the official site and downloading and installing it. Blizzard also has a nice guide here. WARNING: Installing an incorrect driver can cut off your internet! If unsure, call the technical helpdesk (e.g. Dell / HP / Acer ) and request for assistance on updating network card drivers.

3)

How do I reset utorrent settings?
Note that this will delete all saved torrents and settings. For Windows XP users: to your C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data folder.
For Windows Vista and Windows 7 users, go to C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\. Delete the utorrent folder

To reset the max half open connections, run the lvllord utility again (for XP) or run the undopatch.bat (for yaronmaor Vista patcher) or run the half-open software and click "Restore original file" (for Vista half-open patcher). For enabling auto tuning back, the command is:
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal

4)

Does this guide apply for the BitTorrent application as well?
Yes - the application has just a name change so it is safe to use this guide. If you compare utorrent vs BitTorrent, both are almost the same in features with the differences being the naming, branding, icons and some additional links. There may be additional 'features', but all features from utorrent are there.

5)

I am unable to surf the Internet or my Internet gets cut off when uTorrent is downloading?
First, try reducing the upload speed. Next, reduce the number of connections in Options > Preferences > Bandwidth > "Global maximum number of connections:" in steps of 25 and see if it helps. Finally, impose a download speed limit under "Global Download Rate Limiting".

6)

Do I still need to port forward if I am on a wired connection to the router? Wireless?
Yes. You do need to configure port forward if you are connected to a router via wired or wireless. But if you are connected directly to a modem (and not a router), you don't need to port forward as the modem automatically forwards all packets to one computer.

For the old Windows Vista / Windows 7 version, run the CMD file again as Administrator, and type d and press ENTER.

8)

Is there any way of finding an open port in my system besides port forwarding?
If your system is behind a router, absolutely no port will be forwarded to you unless your router supports UPnP or the router is configured to port forward.

However, if you are connected to an ISP that blocks incoming connections,
you can try GRC's Shield's UP (thanks Sonic_fanrs) to find open ports that your ISP allows. Click 'Proceed' and then 'Common Ports'. This requires to disable your firewall and enable DMZ mode if you are using a router, which can be very *very* risky and we would not recommend this especially if your system is not updated with the latest patches.

9)

My internet got cut out / restarted / disconnected, and when it was restored, why did the speed get so slow?
First, this is normal. Wait about 10-15 minutes, and if the speeds are still slow, restart utorrent. Right-click the tray icon on the bottom right and click Exit. Start uTorrent again.

Everytime you restart utorrent, it reconnects to the DHT network and obtains a new set of peers from the tracker and DHT. Although utorrent caches the peer list in your computer, there is a possibility that it may drop good speed peers. There's a way around this.

When you are experiencing good download speeds with a torrent, locate the good upload peer by clicking the torrent row, and clicking on the Peer tab. You will now see a list of peers that you are connected to. Look for the row whose Down speed is extremely high that the majority. Right-click that row and click 'Copy selected hosts'. Paste this good peer in some notepad file.

When utorrent needs to restore, click the torrent row again, click on the Peers tab, right-click any row and click "Add Peer..." and paste your good peer here. uTorrent will then attempt to establish connection to that good peer provided it has free upload slots (not choked).

10)

My port forwarding still does not work! uTorrent still shows a yellow/red icon at the bottom. Help!
For users from Singapore, we can help you configure port forwarding. See our computer service site. For international users, you can contact me through e-mail, letting me know your Skype account and time range you are available. Rate will be US$20.

Otherwise, there's still light at the end of the tunnel. uTorrent v2 onwards supports UDP hole punching via UTP. Basically, what this means that uTorrent tries to work around port forwarding by having another peer to help you setup the connection between two other peers. Make sure UTP is enabled above for this to work by going to Options > Preferences > Advanced and setting bt.transp_disposition to 255.

11)

Does port forwarding make my computer more vulnerable to security attacks?
Simple answer: Yes, but as long as you keep your Windows and uTorrent updated, it should be of low concern. Remember, if every peer in a torrent does not have port forwarding enabled, no one can connect to any one. Port forwarding allows you to receive more connections from other peers and this means more speed.

Most modern routers have UPNP (Universal Plug and Play) built in where utorrent is directly able to communicate with the router to automatically setup the required ports.

Another example, when you host a DOTA multi player game, you need to port forward. If you didn't have to, it means your router supports UPNP where port forwarding is automatically setup.

12)

Does this guide apply to the Apple Mac version of uTorrent?
Unfortunately, we are not familiar with the Mac version of uTorrent. However, we believe the guide still applies except for the following: (a) Installation Process (b) TCP Half-open Patches / Optimizer

13)

I was downloading at high speed then suddenly I get an error "Disk overloaded 100%" and my download slows down?
This error appears when uTorrent attempts to write the downloaded data to your hard drive and then got severely delayed by other processes waiting to read/write data as well.

To prevent this problem from occurring again, minimize hard drive activity such as copying large files or starting an application that requires a long loading time especially when uTorrent's download speeds are reaching a high level that requires high speed reading and writing.

If despite the attempts to minimize disk activity still results in the problem, it may be that you are downloading too fast for your hard drive to catch up. Try defragging (Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter) or use another disk drive to save your download. As a last resort, you can limit your download speed at Options > Preferences > Bandwidth > Global Download Rate Limiting.

14)

The uTorrent site reports that my port forwarding works, but I still have the red icon appearing at the bottom?

There is a possibility that the tracker is identifying an incorrect IP address. First, locate the IP address that the uTorrent port checker page reports. You can run the checker here.

Port Checker Page

Copy that IP address to the uTorrent > Options > Preferences > BitTorrent > IP/Hostname to report to tracker field. Restart uTorrent and check if it works better now. If not, change the field back to blank to allow uTorrent to automatically detect your IP Addrss.

Note that if you specify the IP address field and you ever restart your modem or your IP address changes somehow, you will need to change this field everytime if not the red icon will be back.

15)

Sometimes I get the message "Attention - this torrent contains files that may harm your computer. Upgrade to uTorrent Plus to protect yourself from viruses hiding in torrents"?
This is uTorrent's attempt to get you to pay for their paid version of uTorrent. Simply ignore the message. But do make sure that you have security software running on your system to scan all your downloaded torrents!

Change Log

Probably a little late to start a change log, but better late than never

Please do not post unsuccessful incidents in the Comments below. If it does not work, we're sorry, We tried our best. Instructions to undo everything is provided above (in FAQ #3). If you found out how to workaround your problem, let us know below and we will include it in the guide crediting you as well.

753 comments

Sorry but when i went to the dialogue box where I save the sample torrent the box didn't have the place to check OK so I couldn't continue. Is this possibly because I stillhato fix the router situation - you said go ahead and try a sample but all went fine and it downloaded but I couldn't complete as no OK box

The bad ISP link needs to be fixed. The link takes me to a error page. This is because the link currently includes "www." where as it should just be "http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Bad_ISPs" without the "www.' The site works fine, as long as the "www." is removed. Other than that, nice run down.

I love you...sniff sniff, wipe tear of joy from my eye...for mentioning cheat engine, i hooked it up and yes, *faint..apparently it makes utorrent itself just work its little A$$ off since my dl's are literally 10X faster. I JUST watched my dl's and turned off cheat engine as I did and they plunged from 1mb/s to 10kbps- ALL OF THEM. I don't know who you are Anon, guy or girl, but I will but you dinner of your choice any day of the week, anywhere (cept I'm in Seattle lol) hope you get this. again, THANK YOU=)

Just so you know, although the speeds report higher, it actually takes 50% longer to download the same file. Try it on the ubuntu download (its free and has high speed seeds). Mine took over 15 minutes to download with cheat engine set to 0.1 yet reported over 15 Mbits/s. Without cheat engine the same file downloaded in just over 9 minutes and reported 1.6 Mbits/s. It's up to you.

I have to rescind my dramatic reply about cheat engine. As mentioned somewhere above about cheat engine being "fake" it may work for games or other programs but with utorrent CHEAT ENGINE ONLY SHOW FASTER SPEED BUT DOES NOT ACTUALLY SPEED UP ANYTHING.

along with the below comment you need to enable protocol encryption so as to avoid throtteling. allow incoming legacy connections. really works like a charm along with the 0.1 speed hack on cheat engine for utorrent.

what i found that works wonders is changing port number to 45682. then download 'cheat engine 6.2'. set cheat engine to utorrent/bittorrent,, enable speed hack, and set the number to 0.1. 0.1 very very important. I have been getting speeds up to 950kb/s on a 1mb line when i used to get max 15kb/s

Some of this stuff definitely works. Just remeber what you did so you can change it back after. (in case it slows you down or doesn't work)
The biggest changer for me was changing net.max_halfopen value to 80. After all this I went from 128-200 kbp's downloading and increased it to 1mb's . Its so much faster, thankyou very much!

The only "guide" that 99% of the users out there need to maximize their uTorrent speeds both in upload and download is to COMPLETELY DISABLE UTP.

Everything was going just fine with uTorrent until UTP brought the problems and speed limitations that so many of its users face today.

So simply DISABLE UTP to get your old speeds back.

Or even better, consider a modern client suited for the modern day, such as Deluge, Tixati, qBittorrent or Halite. ANY of these is better than old and smelly uTorrent (which is now becoming PAYWARE on top of it), beginning with the fact that it will get you rid of that UTP crap altogether to insure maximum performance and security.

Out with the old, in with the new, welcome to the bittorrenting of the 2010's.

You are a lifesaver! Special thanks to the readers suggestions which I believe helped tremendously. Normally I average 750kbps but this particular one was crawling at 1-30kbps. I used the tips and I'm now back at average 750kbps. It would've taken forever otherwise. Thanks again

I agree. The user suggestions helped me as well. I normally average around 1 mbps but this torrent was 50-60 kbps. I tried the user suggestions and it is now at 1.4 mbps. Didn't try the articles suggestions as I am content with 1 mbps but may try it in the future.

I know you put a lot of hard work into the article but i tried everything and the download spped remains at a frustratingly low 12-15Kbps. It takes friggin days to download a decent file. About a month ago i downloaded a file sized 700MB and it finished in half an hour. Now it takes a friggin day!

This guide has made an epic difference!
We were getting about 30k/s before, this, now averaging 600-700! Unbelievable! I also changed my port to 80 which doesn't appear to throttled at all by my ISP, other ports started out well but after a few minutes slowed down, using port 80 has resulted in stable speeds for over an hour now :)

Impressive! I'm averaging right around 95-100kB/s after tweaks. I have achieved speeds just over 100kB/s prior to trying this, but the effects were few, far between, and more often than not EXTREMELY temporary. Just wanted to express my appreciation/gratitude for the time and effort put into this guide. Keep up the good work, fellas!!!

I'd suggest trying a new port as ISPs can monitor and throttle any ports they think are being used at peak times. I just reset my port and my download went from 30kB/s to 800kB/s and waht was set to be a 2.5 hours D/L went to around 3 mins... Thanks for your work here, I also tried a few of these and definitely think that helped too!

this is the BEST...i was plagued by ~20kBps dowload reates for a long time, which dettered me from downloading. thi siste had all the resources neatly linked up to help me. Using the available links, i found out that my ISP was known for traffic shaping and limiting bittorrent down and uploads. i was able to cofigure encryption in utorrent. also configure my router to forward ports. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

Downloading a rather big torrent right now, I am rather upset that some peers "suck" with speeds over 1MB/s, while giving me only 15-20kB/s in return. As a result, I am downloading with an overall speed of somewhere around 300kB/s, while uploading with speeds up to 5MB/s ... not fair, is it?
Can't be on my side. My connection has a tested 50-70mbps upload and 70-90mbps download, and other torrents have worked with well over 2MB/s download speed.
Is there any way to restrict individual down/up ratios to attract "good" peers?

first: i still don't understand how by running the speed test could help increasing the speed of downloading, and by setting the upload speed i noticed that downloading will be effected?
second: using the SG optimizer isn't enough to tuning?
Thank so much for your help, since i open my download 24/7, am addicted to it.

Cheat Engine is a universal hacking program, for rewtriting datas on byte level.

This program just rewrites some codes of uTorrent and the program shows you a fake download speed. It may say that your download speed increased from 400kb/s to 5mb/s, but your download speed is still 400 kb/s! So if you want your net faster you﻿ must buy a better packet.

Hi,
Many thanks for the great tutorial!
I applied the Lvllord Patch but have now uninstalled it. I've tried to work back through your instructions re: changing net.max_halfopen and bt.transp_disposition to restore them to the original values but unfortunately I didn't make a note of what the originals were :( Is it possible for you to tell me, please?
Many thanks again.

I tried a trick that I found while browsing ... if you have unlimited broadband like I have it may work for you too ... but remember to jot down the original numbers if this trick doesn't work for you.

Go to preferences>bandwidth>global max number of connect> change the value to 80000 --- then go to max number of peers per torrent> change the value to 8000 --- then lastly go to number of upload slots per torrent> change the value to 8 --- then click apply [ i like the number 8 LOL! ]

i know this may sound riduculous and contrary to what I've read here but this trick does work for me ... the theory is that the more connections & peers you have the more seeders you get.

after 5 minutes of testing, i found that my dl speed dramatic increased 3 fold going from 500kb to 1.5mb

Very good guide! Informative and really provide great tweaks! Hope there will be more effective tweaks out there. I have tried everything and I think my settings reached the peak, but not my speed duh. Anyway admin are you on MaxOnline?

Tried all of the mentioned steps, unfortunately no any progress. Speed still raises to normal for 4-5 seconds, then falls down to 10kb/s (usual download speed is around 2MB/s).
I have switched to VUZE and i got rid from this awful speed issue.

Thanks for everything...about 2 months ago I followed the instructions to the dot and it increased X10...but last few days it has come back to normal after updating the Utorrent...I rechecked and found everything to be right..except the speed had not increased since.....????

please admins i have followed ur steps but :( it not work with me i think i don't understand some steps so please admins please please i want ur help by i can send u msgs so u can explain for me some steps and after i finish and can download with high speed because i really want to download with high speed coz i have very sux connection my download speed is 30kbs/s and this take time to download big files i will send for u a thanks msg for u and after that if u want to remove me from ur email remove me bro i swear i just want to know how to make and not to annoy u so please accept this msg and tell me ur email or u can add me in ur email my mail is : rush_up55@yahoo.com i will wait ur reply bro so bye bye now ...... with my best wishes
Shuxes

this package is wonderful, i am using it and i have very good results, Thanks a LOT !! but i have a question :

i have 2 different services of ADSL (2MB/s-356KB/s) from the same ISP, when i try to use 356 kB/s on 2 mb/s (by modem configuring) my speed with internet download manager is 2mb/s but with utorrent i have 356 kB/s and it didnt exceed higher , how can i fix this problem ? (there was no this problem before).

i did everything which is there but there is no improvement, something that i found is that my ISP is a BAD one but is there any possibility that they only limit utorrent and other softwares like internet download manager open ?

Hello and thanks for your guide. It's great, I just wanted to say that i've found going into task manager (CTRL+ALT+DLT -> Task Manager), navigating to the processes tab and setting the uTorrent process priority to High helps improve the speed a bit. This is because having a higher priority on a program makes the computer improve the selected program's specific task at the risk of slowing down other programs, it's a great technique and I wouldn't mind if you added this to the guide. :)
-JimG

Hi thanks this was very helpful, but my major problem was not fixed. When i download highly seeded torrents my speed initially sits at around 1Mb/s or higher then after about a minute or 2 the download speed begins to drop then after about 5 min it has halved then after about 8-10 min it is down to around 40kb/s. I have done the ISP throttling test and apparently it is not throttled, any ideas on how to fix this, it has been buggin me for a few months now as it never used to do this, please help, Thanks!!

Hi thanks for the quick reply, I have fully read through everything an applied the relevant settings even in the FAQ and I have no clashing software, is the problem I outlined a common one? Is it most likely ISP throttling? I am with TPG and as far as I can find via researching them they do not throttle peer-2-peer so any ideas what may be causing it? Thanks again!

hi again i cant seem to find a way around this, my ISP claims they do not throttle p2p, I noticed that whenever i reset the connection i get back to full speed for about 5 min before it slows down again, do you know of any software that is available that could automatically reset my connection every 5 minutes or so as that would fix my problem. Thanks again!

Try lowering your 'upload rate', 'global maximum number of connections' and 'maximum number of connected peers per torrent' in Options, Preferences, Bandwidth . If you have further problems, I suggest posting in this forum - http://forum.utorrent.com/viewforum.php?id=11

I am in South Korea and my d/l speed is 7380 kB/s and u/l is 4286 kB/s. I am not computer savvy whatsoever so can someone help me with my settings? Right now I have it set at 72 max. upload rate, 600 global max number of connections, 100 peers connected and 8 upload slots per torrent. I get good download speeds but I'm wondering if I have it set right?

Can anyone tell me if they have downloaded that evil patcher? I have 3-4 anti virus and windows defender going crazy when I even click on the link. Is there another program that will do the same thing.

Thnx for the guide. Been downloading torrents with too much fluctuating speeds (had kept unlimited dl and 5kBps as upload on my 256Kbps). Now m getting more stable dl speed (though only 24-25kB/s :< ) and uploading much more (uploading speed is still very fluctuating but its fine).

Am downloading a torrent with 1040 seeds and 941 peers, connected to 26-28 seeders and 16-19 peers, global max connections set to 90, connected peers per torrent set to 55. Now the question is: is it normal that only 26-28 or mayb only 30 seeds are connected or all 55 should get connected?

I have tried every forum,speed test,setting combinations ETC, but I am still only achiving 10 kbps, when I first got U-Torrent I was getting an average of 650 kbps.....& THIS IS WITH MOBILE BROADBAND.
I have tried my friends broadband connections(BT,VIRGIN,) but I still only acheive an average of 20 kbps.

THE FAULT MUST BE WITH U-TORRENT, AS I ACHEIVE AN AVERAGE SPEED OF 400kbps WITH GYGAN ( using either MBB,BT,VIRGIN)

this has to be the best dang gone guide for p2p aka utorrent to have ever hit the net/web.. very nice job ;-) was doing a max downloads of 800kb/s now im doing 1.4 mb/s on torrents..

uploads was at 250kb/s.. now im doing 400+kb/s..

i didnt do the tcpoptimizer you had for download for windows 7 because its pre set & cant change value's (i was used to using the xp ver of it) there is now btw a new windows 7 ver of it (3.0.3 as of this post) that you can download from here:

This is an excellent guide. It's very good to see a guide which is actually updated; lots of guides for stuff like this are a few years old at least.
I had port forwarding set up but it wasn't working because I didn't have a static IP address and had just entered a random IP address into the box on my router's configuration page.
I would advise people to check out some of the FAQs on the uTorrent website and also check out PortForward.com
They've got some useful information on setting up port forwarding on loads of different routers. They didn't actually have mine, but they had one with an identical setup page so it was no problem.

Downloading only one torrent and increasing the number of connections "PER TORRENT" ! effects immediately!!! Global maximum is already at 750 and default per torrent limit is 100. The proposed number in the tip says make it 375. I moved it to 375 and saw the effect immediately. And now I moved it to 575 (since global is 750 which makes me think i can push a little bit more). Still experimenting. But I definitely advise you to try it. Speed gets a little bit more choppy. Goes up and down a little bit quicker but an average it really improves.

I have used the portforward setup to get my static ip but when I check my port it says an error has occurred. I can download but upload at even a slower rate. At first I thought it was Norton but I uninstalled it completly and still the same. I thought using the portforwarding setup application was gonna be a no brainer....after failing doing it manually. But still no luck...

1) no
2) am not sure about utorrent's handling of duplicate trackers, but i would not advise having duplicate trackers. it doesn't do any major damage though, as long as you don't duplicate any tracker too much

It is all depends on your internet connection..
There is nothing that above steps can do if you don't have a good internet connection.
2 Mbps internet connection may be sufficient to get a good speed.. you will get 250Kbps downloading speed

I have played around as much as possible on this, did see an incline on speed, but still battling to get up to 200kb. Running 4mb line, any ideas?? running win 7 pro 64bit, and did a step by step on this guide. Ubuntu i was lucky to get 70Kbps. any ideas???

Can't really tell if these tips are working because my monster d/l has been erratic from the start. But these suggestions are great! Thanx. It gave me a better understanding of uTorrent operation. Keep up the good work!

I tried almost all the tweaks here... I saw a slight increase in speed but then again I can never tell if it is my doing or just a generous seeder with perhaps a 15mbps line and 5 connections. Thanks for the comprehensive Guide. I would recommend everyone to get a UPNP wireless router so they can get the proper ports forwarded and torrents will flow a bit easier.

I have a dataone 256 kbps (the 'b' is right) connection. My upload and download speeds do not seem to go beyond 27 kBps. I have tried all the tweaks of this tutorial but of no use. I cannot figure out what the problem could be. SOMEBODY HEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLPPPPPPPPP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is by far the best tutorial i have come across. thank you for sharing this info. got a couple of questions to ask, i have used every tweak here and all seems fine, getting really good speeds (u-torrent 2.0 beta). question is - will any of these tweaks conflict with each other being so many doing the same job. im also having trouble with the conversion could you please help, my speed is 54.0Mbps. hope you can help. thank you again for this tutorial really good work..

For those having issues with Nvidia Network Manager, it is used primarily for QoS traffic, if you don't want this feature, then uninstall it, your lan connection will still work without it, and your throughput will improve.

some ISPs are blocking your bittorrent connections. just like mobile 8 of indonesia. to tackle this problem, you just simply add more trackers to your ongoing torrent activities. it works for me. chitchatid. i thank you bootstrike for your detailed explanations.

for fewer seeds or peers let "allow legacy connections" be enabled and with more seeds disable "allow legacy connection" since it prevents ISP to track your traffic and enable the outgoing encryption too.
I usually do it by disabling uTP with enabling encryption even on fewer seeds and speed increases too much.

Forgive my english.
I kept getting very low DL speeds with utorrent for a long time due to the nforce network manager glitch. I updated and all but to no avail.
Then i manually terminated the proccess in the task manager ( i think its Nvapps.exe ) and DL speed rocketed to 80 kB from 10 KB. Never had a problem after that.
I know its very annoying but for some reason many XP user still got issues with that glitch even after updating the nvidia drivers.
Hope this helps

Excellent guide. Really works! The problem I'm getting is with uploads. I can only connect minutes at a time in certain cases depending on what location the leecher is from. Seeding back is a real problem. I switched from Ut1.6 to 2.0.2 hoping it would help but to no avail. My uploads rates (when connected) are fine. No probs there. Just hard to connect. Is it coming from my end or the leechers end?

Reinstalling network drivers helped me solving this problem. I would never figure out that torrent dl speed could be connected to drivers. Anyway, speed before was 20-60 KBs and now it goes waaaay up to 300-1150KBs

Hi .. i have upgraded my OS to windows 7 from win XP
i am not able to use any torrent clients ? when i try to download any thing it downloads for a max of 45 secs then it shows up an error message as access denied. I tried disabling the fire wall & tried changing torrent clients , same error . Can some one help me fix this issue Please ? i cannot live with out torrents....

hi I switched from windows xp to windows seven ultimate,my μtorrent speed used to be around 300kbps now is just over 100 kbps.I also use Comodo firewall 4.
Does anybody have a solution or an explanation for this
difference?Thanks

Dunno if anyones mentioned it since havn't read all the threads but you have a mistake with
"(e.g. 28.8kbps, which is 48KBps by Google Calculator)."

28.8Kbps is 3.6KBps not 48.

How on earth did you get 48 and how did google get 48 as its giving the correct 3.6 :s

Be simpler just to say there are 8 bits in a byte so to convert between the two for kilobits (Kbps, small b) just multiply by 8 or kilobytes (KBps, big B) just divide by 8 depending on which one your converting from.

most of these steps did increase my download speed, i also feel safer with the encryption on now thank you, I had that option off because i thought it would increase speeds but it was lowering them apparently

Wow! This guide rocks! My download speed was unleashed & increased by 5 times... But one thing is the speed setting from speedtest.net. My download speed is better by just following my subscription plan speed instead of the tested speed. Cheers!

Hi.
I'm quite happy with my unlimited connection speeds. On good days & torrents I can reach up to 900kbs/torrent(very rare). Usually getting from 500kbs to 100kbs.
So few days earlier my parents informed that our network suddenly cut out. They shut down my computer and restarted the modem, internet came available again. So could it be that the ISP cut out our connection(and do you recommend any kind of software for hiding from your ISP)?

I have been tweeking Utorrent for 2yrs now and have mine set real close to these values. I wish I logged what it was that I changed because I am downloading I consistantly hit 1.1MB/s. My problem is my up speed. I dont know what happened because it droped from 3-400kB/s to 5.... Its hard for me to maintain my ratio @ 1.5 which has droped from 3. If anyone has any clue at all please let me know.
Speed Test Avg. 6500Kb/s down 1200Kb/s up. I also just noticed its seeing signs of ISP upload compression. Time for more research.

Incidentally, if your connection speed (determined via speedtest.net) is 20Mbps, what is the realistically best speed you can get assuming that everything is working to the optimum (i.e. infinite no. of peers, no choking etc)?

You say "Most of us will just click through the dialogs accepting the default values".Why do you think people do that? Do you know the amount of hydraulic pressure, in general terms, required for a suspension bridge's initial embedded aluminated concrete, in cubic volume? Bet you don't !! You'd also accept the default values, wouldn't you !!

Thank you for this guide. The half pipe patch did the trick for me as my download went from 20kbps to 100kbps just like that. Also the protocol encryption worked also. The other registry tweaks did nothing to improve downloads though.

I tried all of the above and still no joy. Then I downloaded uTorrent 1.6 and tried using it instead, and my speed went through the roof! I'm talking about 5xfaster! I wish I would have tried that from the begining.

I found this guide by googling information about point 2 in your guide. I think you are incorrect.

The inbound (inbound only and not outbound, which could be limited by system resources, not by registry entry) limitation only matters in server-client setups. The limit is set up so a single client cant overload a server, or force users to buy Windows Server if they want to host a website on XP. It concerns HTTP only and has nothing to do with the BitTorrent protocol.

Can you point me to a valid source or otherwise explain why you think the HTTP inbound connection limit has any influence on the BitTorrent protocol? Please contact me through my mail if possible.

Edit: sorry I should have looked a little further, I found some other sources myself. They claim it does not just affect HTTP, so I could very well be wrong. It still doesn't make a lot of sense to me, though. I've had a lot of XP machines and never had problems uploading, nor making >10 connections, I think.

Wow, I've had rogers for a while now and i've always wondered why my service with them was 10 mbps but i was getting about 2 KB/s download with torrent. After using this guide my speed launched up to 400 KB/s. It can probably go faster but WOW thank you sooooo much.

I think windows 7 has networking issue, because few days back when I use a mobile phone to connect , it disconnects every few hours, now that i have a gigaset wimax modem my BT connection always jumping from 10-30 Kbps, bt in vista 64bit it was always almost constant 30KBps.. I disabled auto tcp tuning in w7.. bt still no luck.

I have experienced problems with Utorrent. Downloads would stop with a notification that" it could not access a file". Nothing helped, so I downloaded BitTorrent which appears to be the same programme, but happily does not exhibit this problem. My current hassle, which also existed with Utorrent, is that my downloads run at excellent speeds until they reach about 87% & then they slow right down & just about stop. I have tried changing the settings as suggested here & have ensured that my uploads are proportionate to downloads, but to no avail.. I am running Widows7, could that be causing the problem & if so, how do I remedy it?

Hi there, Windows 7 is the best OS release from Microsoft. Fortunately the internet speed is quite fast. Read it (http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/06/07/half-open-outbound-tcp-connections-limit-removed-in-windows-7-and-vista-sp2-no-patch-required/), so effectively no tcp problem, if the problem persists use the version TCPZ_20090108. Google it, use the virtual driver. This will solve the windows 7 problem. Now comes the task stopping. If at any time the task stops, stop the task, do a manual hash check (Right click on the task then select Force Re-check), start the task again when it stops, if the problem persists upgrade your connection. I strongly recommend Direct ADSL.

The utor settings seem to distribute bandwidth more evenly. It's strange but I get about 1.2Mb/s shared between upload and download no matter what (router issue?). Also when downloading a certain movie at it's full potential 500Kb/s it seems to crash my router but at 150 it's fine. Any ideas on that?

I'm having trouble understanding the conversion for the speeds. This really should be explained better. The speed test that you refer to records everything in Mbps. Yet you've jumped to KBps and Kbps without showing how to convert from Mbps. Now I went ahead and used the google calculator to convert, but from reading what you wrote I can't tell which one I need to convert it to. You say that we want the KBps, but you say "xx/384k" means that your download is unlimited and your upload is limited to 384kbps." If we are to choose one of the xx/###k options then we would need to know that our upload limit is 384kpbs in order to choose xx/384k as our option. I don't see what the KBps has to do with anything. Knowing that it's 48KBps doesn't seem to apply to anything. So why do we need to know what the KBps is, when we are choosing the option based on kpbs?

My connection came up as 0.24 Mbps.

Using google calculator I know that is either: 30.72 KBps or 245.76 Kbps.
Reading your guide logically, it would suggest that I would choose xx/256k as my option as it's the closest to 245.76 Kbps.
If that's the case what difference does knowing it's 30.72 KBps make?

Hi, that is right, you should choose 256k. The KBps pointers are there as many ISPs and speed tests display speeds in different units KBps and Kbps so we've put it to clear confusion to ensure you select the correct upload speed

Hey, The RED dot in my utorrent client certainly indicates that the wireless router which I am using is limiting my network traffic. However there is no port-forwarding mentioned for the Netgear router model MR814 v2 which i am currently using. Hence the "test port forwarding" gives an error that my port does not appear to be open.

By installing the file in "SAFEMODE" it prevents your antivirus from bitchin about the file and it creates an automatic backup copy too!
Just in case your doubtful and you dont trust like even your own mother? make a manual copy yourself first ( for backup purposes) of the file tcpip.sys found: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\TCPIP.SYS
Make a system restore point too if your really paranoid!
Now what I hear you ask?

Reboot your comp in "SAFEMODE" - pressing F8 or Del key -choose from options then navigate to where you d/l the file, d/b click to launch it and it will open up a DOS window... just follow instructions dudes and your good to go!

Those of you that trust Microshyte and beleive they have your best interests at heart (cough), will no doubt have automatic windows update enabled by default yes?... (you really are new to windows arnt you?)
Anyway, Microshyte will probably rewrite the file again so you need to check that from time to time or just reapply the patch again periodically, good luck!

actually. After awhile I peeked out at 800 on avg 600 now. I'm trying to experiment with the uploading limit. But as to what I'm getting it doesnt really change anything.
setting it to automatic uploads 100+kb/s and im still getting same speed limiting to 40 a bit better but around the same. It can go up to 650-680 but goes back down to 550-600 very fast. 30, 25, 20, 15, 10 are about the same I don't really see a difference. but number connections increase theoretically it should give me better download speeds. but not really....

i'm guessing its cuz everyone is limiting the upload speed thats why im only getting 1-5kb/s from like 3/4 of the connected peers.

The guide is very good. but I didn't really get much jump on the speed. I had bitcomet and swapped to uTorrent to see if there is a difference. but the speed was about the same.

Everyone was saying they got up to 500-800kb/s after the guide =/ I was still getting about 150-200. It was 1 connection that gave me 100kb/s alone and when other connections increased upload speed, this connection started dropping so in the end I still had the same 200kb/s.

Increasing the number of connected peers and global connections definitely gave me a boost. about 50kb/s-100kb/s? I'd advise to do this. but a lot of fluctuation speed keeps dropping back to 250 but at times to 300-400kb/s.

Gotta say, EXCELLENT Guide in deed.
Helped pretty much. I learned a lot from it.
Though, since i have router, normally with dynamic
ip address, i had to make it static in order my Pirelli router to port forward. The only thing i wanted to ask is,
is Utorrent port forwarding safe?
I mean since i used almost every tip, and step for Windows XP in this guide and the guides connected with this one, i kinda do want to know if its all virus-safe. By that i mean is port forwarding like a net-whole and can something bad happen?o0
Same goes for the patch update for half-open connections.

Firstly, thanks very much for this guide. It's the perfect idiot guide, so clear and easy to follow. I was having trouble getting the port to open in order to get the fabled "green tick". I did everything I could do as advised in your guide. After I followed the advice to change the port number to something else randomly, and fixed up a few of my errors on the router webpage using your tips, I got the green tick! That was my major issue before. Now, I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a patient person. But knowing that I now have all your information at my disposable gives me peace of mind to just take my time and try everything to get my speed back up. I managed 120kb+ on an Open Office demo torrent that was suggested to me, so I am very hopeful. Thanks once again; great job!

I also wanted to thank the person who found some speed improvement by increasing the maximum number of peers to 1000. I just tried that and it has helped a bit. Not a great deal (I hit 20kb+) but every improvement is a step forward!

hi, first of all nice guide here. second, i have a bit of a strange problem myself. i tryed all in this guide and still it dint had a result. my problem is: i added to utorrents list a torrent of 20.4GB with multiple files (around 300Mb each) every time i start downloading that torrent my speed for other torrents drops (like from 1MB to nill) and all my programs that need internet (as Google talk or MSN ) get disconnected. i've tryed a lot of things. I am runing windows 7 ultimate x64 and using windows firewall, and i never had this problem before. if u guys have any ideea pls share it with me. thanx

Ok, so i have vista and i am currently torrenting a 9GB file, i have tried these setting and they worked for about 10 hours, at about 100kBs and then i went back down to 20 then i tried another website and went up to 120kBs for one hour now back down to 20 again....this is really frustrating nothing will constantly work.

Thx alot this really helped, i did everything upto the bonus suggestions and my connection was still slow, but the instant i set 'Maximum number of connected peers per torrent' to 1000. from my speed jumped 4 times higher, i found playing with my upload speed eventually got the speed to double again, thx alot. =)

I have tried everything u said and i still cannot get my speeds up!!!! i had top speeds of 400 the other n ight, and now am down to under 15 again and showing no signs of getting higher! my isp is talktalk in the UK.(i hear you all groan) lol, and i have always had problems downloading thru utorrent.If anyone else has any advice pls pass it on as im at tearing out hair stage right now!! thanks

Firstly what fantastic instructions. Im in Malaysia and I went from 2.5k speeds to 90k speeds!!!

My question is probably silly, but in utorrent I want to say download 6 episodes of a show so I add them to utorrent no problem but I only want it to download 1 show at a time rather than utorrent trying to download all 6 at one time. So I want it to download the first show in the list to completion and only then move onto the second and third and so on.

" If Utorrent is really slow on Vista (on my computer everything was really slow... I.E, Outlook) try disabling IPv6. Go to Control Panel > Network and Sharing Centre. Click on view Status for your connection, then properties and uncheck Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6) then OK it etc. I didn't need to restart Utorrent or do anything else. The download I was on jumped from 5k right up to 200."

This guide was useful to optain some information about the settings in my bittorrent software. I had to try out a couple settings before I found one that worked better than the default settings.

My connection is 18145kbps/1250kbps. Silly to have only 10% upload compare to the download. Anyways it's a nice line compare to old fashion 56KB modem. :D :P
I download from 0kb 1200kb depending on seeds/peers.
Right now I got one with 90+ seeds and 3400+ peers. My download is between 30kb and 150kb.
I only get connected to 2 of 90 seeds. Wonder how I connect to the remaining 88? I guess the seeders got a lot to do with all those peers downloading. :D

nice info, was looking into a way to boost utorrent up some more, seems i have maxed out the limits now, on average i get up to a 1.2MB download rate, tho i've seen it close to 8 or 9MB total download speed. works for me since my modem only works at 1/100th of my gigabit Ethernet connection. then again what do you expect for paying 25 bucks a month

to the good guy who put all those tips. tnx man! It was a big improvement on my DL after following all those tips I was downloading from 15KB/s but now its over 200KB/s. for two months it was zooming more than I expected....
but now it went back to 15KB/s, what gives? the settings are still the same..

just a heads up for those unable to get your port forwarded...do not panic...I found that my OOMA broadband phone was producing a unique IP address that was in the same range as my wireless Belkin Router thus canceling any outgoing ports. You can trouble shoot this by removing the OOMA out of the signal chain and placing it AFTER the wireless router...So, to recap, the signal path should be like this: THe Internet, your Cable Modem, Your Wireless Router THEn your Broaband Phone (OOMA) Hope this helps...It worked for me.

Hi,
I get really good speed (over 1MB/s) on the ubuntu test torrent suggested in the guide so I figure my settings are ok, but most of my other torrents hover around 20-30kb/s even when there are over 100 seeders. Has anyone encountered this before? Is it fixable or does it just happen with certain torrents? Thanks.

people you dont have to follow this step by step, for newbies like myself just try out different things when downloading torrents, what works for someone might not work for someone else, so change a few things, let them settle and see if it makes it faster, some people are emailing me expecting 6gig files to download in ten minutes and this just wont happen. we all wish it would. anyway good luck and do everyone a favour and SEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How to set the firewall and routers for utorrent.I'm using 24 online ISP and my speed is 32kbps unlimited.Is it required to set the above even if I'm using cable net?Can changing the firewall settings provide access to intruders or is it completely safe to use?Help I'm new to this and I found your work intersting and helpful though I'm wary to use utorrent still.

As long as you are using a router, you need to port forward. if you are using a software firewall, you don't need to port forward. as long as you forward the correct port, it is safe unless utorrent has some security holes

After months of trying various tweaks i now have up to 250 kBps. The problem i now have is upload speeds, around 25-30 kBps. this means seeding takes 10 times as long. fast downloads are great but if you need to seed for a day it seems a bit pointless, Any ideas on upload tweaks? cheers

i have my upload limit set to 100 kBps but am only getting 20-30. am i being throttled by my isp? i thought throttling was on download as well as upload. i was so pleased with increase in download from 60 to 400 kBps but as i said earlier it does defeat the object if upload is taking ten times as long.cheers

can i be throttled purely on upload and not download?
ratio of sseds and peers was never a big issue but seems to be now i have a much better download speed.i may as well have download at 100 instead of 300 kBps and at least get my upload out of the way a bit sooner. i always seed 1 to 1... its tempting to stop my upload so i can get on downloading. sorry for the bitch but it seems i am at stalemate.

1) port forwarding is needed if you are connected to a router, whether wireless or wired. faq reworded
2) you do not need to port forward in your USB modem, if you are using only a modem and no router, no forwarding is needed
3) No
4) never tried it, but from what you say so far, you seem to only have a modem, no port forwarding is needed

Regarding the UTSTARCOM UT300R2U, it is BSNL's modem, it doesn't have portforward, even if its there, it does not exist for the given firmware of the modem. All you need to do is re-config the modem to run in PPPOE (use dialer to connect) right now it will be 'always on'. That will force open all the ports to be forwared. Port Forward should be done only once, not every restart. And i dont recommend softwares.

Hi
Can I choose which specific peers I upload to? I am often uploading heavily to people who are giving me nothing, and giving nothing to people who are uploading to me. I just want to make it more fair.

Hey, i just had a doubt, i dont think you have covered it here, in Vista SP2 the limit on half open connections has be disabled, so does that mean we have to change the half open value in utorrent, although we haven't applied that patch, yet we have no limit on it ?? And i wanted to know why we patch for 100 connections(patch applied), although we use only 50 connection in utorrent ??

hi. it seems it is working for many. but not for me. the downloading speed was before 25-30kbps its still the same. i have done every thing with great care. what can be the problem? pls tell me the solution because i am very frustrated to my download speed. and also tell me how can i undo all the changes i have recently made.

Regarding Coldburn's suggestion. it doesn't work for me. gradually slow down my connection from 100kB going down. but when i used the default setting im back at speed. :) anyways. it might work for others.

An excellent Utorrent guide on the earth! The guide does work well on Singnet BB - It is indeed true case! However to confirm if StarHub BB is really throttling badly, I went over to friends' houses to test while following up on the guide. Amazingly, their StarHub BB speeds still crawling slowly no matter most recommended alternatives are used. Again, I tested on friends who use Singnet BB and I am truly convinced enough. Singnet BB really loves this guide? Friends are amazingly shocked and "curse" towards StarHub. Deciding to switch over to Singnet BB later. Anyone with StarHub got no issues with this guide?

all i can say is wow!.. it might take me a while to retrace my steps but somewhere between an hour of tinkering and reading this i took a speed of 30kbs to 715kbs! im not sure who to thank so ill just give thanks all around!

You should post your settings so we can all test it out!! Im having a prob getting my setting rite. I was downloading at 250kb until i took my laptop to a friends house and ever since then i cant get past 30kb. Sucks

utorrent doesn't work with my notopia adsl modem router(3347 02 20ENT). i use "telnet 192.168.1.1" to log for settings.i tried many settings found on the web but nothing. so i urgently need your help. thank you!!!

actually i m still unable to port forward.. at times i get the green tick in the torrent client(mu torrent).. at times it shows port is closed or watever.. i use a modem and not a router.. i m on a EVDO connection and almost always on a grouped or shared IP.. i dont know wat to do.. I m from india and use BSNL EVDO on ZTE AC8700 800M instrument.. can sumone help??

Hi there,I am in desperate trouble,I have tried every which way but UTorrent keeps dumping me out as so many others,BUT, I have put it on my daughters laptop & it all works fine . we are going through the same router I am hard wired she is wireless . Any ideas .

unfortunately, this can be caused by many issues such as bad wireless signal, firewall settings, network settings or cpu intensive processes. it is hard to diagnose this and would be better asking in a forum such as microsoft newsgroups [ http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web&exp=1 ]. hope it helps

how do you undo the command prompt thing? i tried doing the dame except with enable instead of disable but it didn't work. it dropped my download rate by 20kbs
(which is pretty bad considering i only have 25kbs to begin with)

I am running Windows 7 (installed yesterday) and i was really trying to make uTorrent work like in Win MCE. It didn't. Started good, and after few minutes goes down to 15-20kB/s. ( My dl is around 6000 kbps, technically i signed for 8000.. Up is 512)

while using Win MCE I was so proud to say I was downloading between 200 and 400. Now... guess what?? 700 (seven hundred) in the first 10 seconds. 5 minutes after no change!

Well. You definitely know your way around uTorrent haha. I'm pushing 1.2 MegaBYTES per second downloading. I did all of what you said but instead of keeping the default upload settings, I reduced my upload to 1/3 of what it's capable of.

Two things I would like to point out before I comment that I hope might show the creator of this guide a little more appreciation. First, I rarely ever post comments. Maybe 3 times a year at best. Second, I have been torrenting and reading guides for the better part of 5 years. This being said, this is hands down the best, most complete guide I have come across. Please keep up your excellent work. Thank you.

I don't know what to say. I had been having problems with my download and had tried several suggestions on YouTube to speed up my download but nothing helped. But after trying out the above my downloads skyrocketed right away! And all this happened when I hit 'Install' only - I didn't even get the chance to carry out the rest of the instructions from uTorrent Speed Guide settings onwards. Don't know if continuing with them will even see a greater speed in the download!?

Thanks to the author. The guide is extremely helpful and boosted my torrent downloads from a measly 20 kB/s to speds of over 100 kB/s. The uTP tip is extremely useful and so is the half open connections. Thanks a lot!

i have everything OK... and yes i always get low speeds... but when i start the ubuntu´s torrent .. dam!! it goes to full Download SPEED !!!!!... i realize that. the torrent i was trying is a crapy one

Excelent tutorial. Tried all tips on my Win 7 7229 flavour system and reached some very personal conclusions.

Gone from 50kB to 400~500 KB/s on a single torrent. Keep reading.

TCP/IP Auto Tuning, Bonus Tip 2 didn't helped. I reverted them.

The uTP tip helped a lot.
Done the tcpip patch to 100 and utorrent to 50.

peer.disconnect_inactive_interval user tip got inconclusive results.

Findings of some things that i red in the several pages of this forum:

Nº 1 - Number of torrents downloading

It's better to have only one torrent at a given time because the connections won't be divided by all torrents that you have.

Does uTorrent have the capacity to start a torrent (in a queue style) when a single torrent finishes downloading?

Nº2 - Connections

I played a bit with the connections limit and i got a soft spot that works for me:

global connections: 375
max connections per torrent: 375

I know it's kinda odd setting this parameters equally and some may find them rather low (me too, by the way), but downloading a single torrent it works really well because you get a very high number of seeds and peers.

Nº 3 - Tcpip

There is also a registry setting to guarantee that the tcpip limit is disabled for Vista/Win7.

See this link:
http://deepxw.blogspot.com/2009/05/say-bye-to-half-open-tcp-connections.html

Nº 1 - Number of torrents downloading
Does uTorrent have the capacity to start a torrent (in a queue style) when a single torrent finishes downloading? yes, set the maximum number of torrents to 1 in Prefs under queueing section

Nº2 - Connections
Already mentioned in #14

Nº 3 - Tcpip
to make the guide short, I prefer to conver a general way that covers all major operating systems. but thanks for sharing

#14 refers to a general tip that actually can degrade performance if there are more connections than your SO and network hardware can handle.

The tip i refer joins the best of three worlds for good torrents and goes beyond #14:
1- Single torrent download, to assure that seeds/peers wont be divided by several torrents,hence getting more seed/peers and greater download rates.
2- uTP tip active to avoid traffic shaping.
3- global connections: 375
max connections per torrent: 375

Awesome guide. Took 5-10 mins to carry this out. My ISP throttled my torrent downloads severely until midnight and I only ever got 5-10KB/s. It pissed me off. Restarted utorrent after doing these changes and now I get 700-800KB/s any time of the day. This is a lifesaver.

thnkx for the info been hekpful everytie something goes wring (like when installing utorrent 1.9)}now on step How do I reset utorrent settings?
Note that this will delete all saved torrents and settings. Go to your C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data folder and delete the utorrent folder.
dont delete the one that says resume.dat and your info will stay but alll settings reset.......XP

chears!!
by increasing the seed limit and peer limit, the treshold increases also (might) so, invites some extra seeders..
by right clicking a file->bandwidth allocation->High,
it seems to give some extra KB 2.
last,
it seems at rush hours (depends on location ofcourse..), download speed decreases drastically so mind u'r selfs that.
also, stoping a download at its midst adopt the same affect.
play with it a little,
every computer/connection,
might have its own configuration.
G luck.

edit:
actually, playing with the bandwidth allocation is confusing due to dynamic feature of torrents.
so,
don't count on it, it might just be giving an extended privilege to the modified one (while downloading more than one application).

yup, i'm using port # 55641 before, & now changed to # 45682 (i did several searches on these popular numbers including # 16881) just make sure you configure the changes in your router & windows firewall TCP & UDP ports too. i saw a slight increase & more stable download speed of upto 10%, way to go!

Thank you for the very clearly written guide. I now have a much better understanding of how uTorrent functions. Great job!

I have found on my system using DSL that certain ports seem to work better than others. I swapped from one that was running at about 40kB/sec to another that absolutely crawled at under 20kB/sec. Another change and I was up in the 80kB/sec range with spikes at over 100, which is close to my maximum capacity.

Thanks man I had most of the tweaks mentioned here, but my upload speed was way off..much too high..followed your advice and know I'm hitting download speeds of 400 kbps..thanks again. To the detractors dont bother with them..

More optimization: After learning how to set my maximum allowed upload speed (see previous comment) I found that Comcast is also limiting my steady state download speed. If I exceed their maximum, they reduce my download speed and I cannot use other programs on my computer that require downloading, even to surf the web using Internet Explorer.. Using the same technique described for adjusting my uploading limit, I set my download limit to 800 k/B.sec. A really good torrent will run my downloading speed right on 800. If I set my limit higher, Comcast software will reduce my download speed to arround 700 kB/sec and I'll lose functionality of other programs that are running on my computer. If I leave my downloading limit at 800 kB/sec, I have enough room to do quick downloads that would drive me over the Comcast limit. Use the "speed" button on the u-torrent screen to activate the speed chart so you can see how you are doing during downloads. Set your download limit in Options/Preferences/Bandwith. Challenge your service provider to find their steady state speed limits and then adjust u-torrent to stay just under them.

Typical response to increasing a limit is that your computer will race over the threshold but within about 30 seconds or so, your I.S.P. will rein it in and keep it well below the threshold for the rest of the download. During this time you are running at a maximum allowed speed and no increase is allowed for any reason. If you set a limit just under the threshold, you are allowed to exceed it up to the 30 second time limit (or whatever the time limit is). In this mode other programs on your computer will work.

Setting a downloading limit is a little harder to do because a lot of torrents won't get you to your I.S.P. limit unless you have a high speed connection. Then you may have to find some movie torrents with 2000 to 3000 seeds that can rev up u-torrent fast enough to trigger them.

Thanks man this made my torrents speed 3 x faster, still not as fast as I would really like though, I download at an average of 85 kbps, might it be my router which is a Linksys WRT54G ver 6.0? because I have friends with slower internet than me and with no changes to there comp they download at 400kbps

http://torrent.ubuntu.com:6969/ is just a test torrent to find the best speeds you can get and to allow you to play with your upload speed to see whether it affects your download speed (as the case for ADSL connections)

yes, you can add a pre-defined list of public trackers to all torrents but this way, you will be hitting trackers which may not have the original torrent registered in it (means no additional seeders).

Congratulations, great guide!
My download speed increased a little but it would probably increase even more if I could follow all your instructions.. I have a Xavi router model x7868r+ and I'm not being able to configure the 'port forward'. Can you help me on that? Thank's a lot!

check out page 97 of the manual to port forward http://www.telefonicaonline.com/on/io/es/atencion/soporte_tecnico_y_averias/internet/adsl/modems/inalambricos/xavi_7868/ManualUsuario_Fabricante_X7868_Ingles.pdf

I downed the patch at http://www.lvllord.de/ but when i opened it and ignored my virus scanner, a box popped up saying "Cannot open file. You may not have permission to access this file" or sum shit wtf???

Wow... After working your suggestions I'm finally able to pull decent speeds with torrents! I was eeking by at 10-20kbs (thought that was standard for torrents) and now I bottum out around 150kbs! thanks much

Great Guide, reinforced most of what I'd already done and corrected a few bad things I picked up along the way. Now I've got back the speed I thought I should have. That'll teach me to listen to "mates" who got their information from YouTube.

Why not record this as a video and post it on YouTube - something needs to be done about all the nonsense being posted on that site with regard to uTorrent speed......

Wow it really works, I tried to find solution to speed up my utorrent and having difficulties with other fixes but this step by step direction really helps me a lot it ups my speed from 21kB/s to 88kB/s with this tutorial, thanks

This is far and away the most comprehensive and helpful guide to rocketing up my utorrent speeds, mad props to everyone who's contributed-I only wish I'd found it sooner! Get this as much exposure as possible!

I downloaded-EvID4226Patch223d-en.zip, and try run in msdos the whole thing disappear....am running WinXP-SP-2,

So I downloaded the Germany which I dont know the language but desperate for the Patch to work, I just kept pressing Yes, and enter a number of 100.....A Message (taste druecken um zu beenden) appear and just stop there. And I press enter the msdos screen disappear...So tell me now is this good or bad.

I did all the necessary steps in this guide and actually, I don't really care much if it actually sped up my uTorrent downloads, but thanks to this (which happened to link to other guides), I was able to set a Static IP and to portforward (FINALLY).

I am an avid torrent digger. Like most of us I am also on the search path of how to improve my torrent speed download. My PC setup was in a LAN environment at my office and a wireless ISP environment in my home.

I tried the suggestions above all of them. Although they improved my download speed a little bit but thats not what I expected. I even tried using older utorrent like version 1.6 which to my amazement works fast but still what I have in mind.

There are geeks in the inet who boast that they can dl files about 700 mb in 10 mins. tops. Now that would be a lot of object of envy ain't it?.

So I tried some experimentation like hell. And by unforseen circumstances the i-net god smiled at me and eventually granted what I wished for. That is a download speed about 250++ kb/s. Just imagined what perverted intentions would that bring to everyone. lol

Here's what I did...tada... after trying all of the above I reset my utorrent advance preferences back to its default and original values just hit the reset buttons. And then I tinker with this one line bt.no_connect_to_services_list in the advance preferences tab, it has a value of 25,110 actually I just hit the reset button and surprisingly the value became 25,110,6666,6667 thats all.

I am using utorrent version 1.8 the latest one. Speed is very good 250++kb/s I am very happy now. If it works for me why cant this work for anybody. My pc is P4 winxp service pack 2. Thats all folks. You can email me if this one works for you just let me know. Email is unifiedtheoryofworlddomination@gmail.com

Here is a practical way to tune u-torrent for maximum download speed that works for me. This is the final step after all the other suggestions for setting up u-torrent and adjusting your computer have been followed.

My internet service provider is Comcast who monitors my upload and download speeds and clamps my steady state up-load speed to 120 kb/s. I can increase the upload speed for a few seconds, maybe 5 or 10 seconds, and then it drops back to 120. This is way below what I get by doing a quick free speed test offered on many different web sites. When I am operating at this clamped up-load maximum, my u-torrent download speed drops way down and I lose my Internet Explorer connectivity, because I also lose the short term allowed increase in upload speed that maintains my computer communications.

It is suggested that not all ISPs monitor or limit bandwith, but from the many complaints from u-torrent users, I suspect that many ISPs are doing the same as Comcast..

This is how to tune in u-torrent. On the u-torrent screen, select the speed button to see a graph while you are downloading. There are two red lines and a green line. The green line is download speed. One red line is your u-torrent selected upload maximum allowed speed (Options/Preferences/Bandwith) and the other red line is your actual upload speed. If your u-torrent maximum allowed upload speed is low enough, there will only be one line visible as they will both be on top of each other.

To tune u-torrent first start a torrent with as many seeds and peers as youI can find, or start multiple downloads to get your upload speed as high as you can. Then set the u-torremt maximum allowed upload speed high enough so that you can see the two red lines. If the upload speed goes very high but after a time, drops down and holds at a lower lever, you have a limit on your upload speed. This is the clamped speed that is allowed for a steady state condition. Running at this rate will slow everything else down as the computer can no longer communicate.

When I sellect a maximum allowed upload speed to just under this clamped speed, Immediately my download speed rises up to a high level and everything else works fine. While the torrent is downloading and the limited upload speed is a straight line, u-torrent is actually limiting my upload speed. If there are still two lines, the top line is the limit and the lower line is the actual upload speed.

It is important to challenge your program with a high upload speed so that you can see this limiting occur. Otherwise, you will be operating under your isp imposed limit and you cannot find out what it is. When u-torrent is limiting the upload, the red line will be a straight horizontal line. Also if your ISP is clamping your upload speed your upload speed will show up as a relatively straight horizontal line. If the upload speed line is not straight, the speed is determined by the connected computers, and neither your ISP or u-torrent is limiting the upload speed.

In my case, after I have set my maximum allowed upload speed (u-torrent) to just under my Comcast limited speed, I can raise my u-torrent upload maximum value and immediately for a short time, my upload speed will also increase. This tells me that I will still have good communications for using Internet Explorer etc. so I can set my limit close to the maximum allowed by Comcast. I am running with an upload limit of 115 kb/s and with a good torrent I can get 850 kb/s download speed. It is not a steady rate but if I average 700 kb/s I can download a 900 mb movie in a half hour. After the download, I still have to keep u-torrent running to do my seeding though. It is better to do the seeding before doing another download as u-torrent will divide up the allowed upload speed total between your torrents and the lower upload speed will slow down your download. If your seeding torrent is not asking for uploading (very low upload speed) then go ahead with another download. Hope this helps some of you.

If internet (web browsing, etc) slows to a crawl while uTorrent is running, disabling DHT can help a lot. Above and beyond connections you specify for torrents (which you should understand and pay attention to), DHT can add a few hundred additional connections and swamp your connection to the internet. In Preferences/BitTorrent there is "Enable DHT network" and "Enable DHT for new torrents". I unchecked both. I've noticed no change in the way uTorrent functions and I can now browse the web while uTorrent is running.

after applying these settings, my speed jumped from avg 30-60kbps to constant 180-190kbps last night. i use bsnl 2mbps plan. does anyone experience speed greater than this. i have again added more tweaks n will see what happens today. c ya.

i guessed you only have @ least 512kbps of bandwidth provided by your ISP in which you have subscribed or have been paying for; sad to say that's your maximum speed you can get, unless you upgrade your speed to 1Mbps or higher.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I had download speeds of .5 to 5. Gave up downloading until I found this tutorial. After going through it several times, speed is greatly increased. 80-90kB/s might not seem like much, but it works for me.

Thank You very much!!! This post really helped me increasing the download speed of torrent files.. i was getting only 25 Kbps before!! Now i am getting an average speed of 100- 130 Kbps.. I am using the BSNL 2MBPS connection..

great!!!! my DL speed increased from 20kbps to 50kbps.. lot of thanks to u.. BUT we would be very thankful, if u(who have written this article) will upload a SETTINGS.BAT file, so tat we dont have to do it again and again.. thank you

thanks for ur reply Ganesh. i think u r from INDIA!! I am from Bangalore. u gave a lot of comments on this article.. plz, can u tell me tat how this tricks works?? without UNCAPPING, how i am getting so HIGH SPEED? if there is no problem, please tell me the general cause for this. why this only works with TORRENTS??

Of course. "Initial seeding" (named "superseeding" in other clients that support this mode) is, as the name says, only meant for initial seeding, when you are the only seed and everyone else is a leech. In this mode you force others to share data between each other rather than download from you, so you would upload as few data as possible until another seed is created. If there are already other seeds than this mode basically means that you refuse to upload to others which, by the design of BT, means that others preffer not to upload to you.

Additional tweaks: Go to Options -> Preferences -> Advanced. The second option under Advanced is ‘net.bind_ip’. Set this to the IP address of your computer.

Options>Preferences>Advanced> net.max_halfopen. (change the number to a higher number like 100 or 200 and your downloads should increase surprisingly a lot) Change the value of peer.disconnect_inactive_interval to 900

Use 32 as your max upload rate in the global bandwidth limiting in the connection panel in the preferences. Change Global max number of connections to 200, Max number of connected peers per torrent to 100, & Number of upload slots per torrent to 10.

Hey great article mate. I think am gonna link it from my website. Btw, u should mention torrentz.com in your article, torrentz.com finds all the trackers of a torrent and provides a uTorrent compatible list!c ya

Add a caching tracker to your torrents, one that I know is http://tracker.p2pcache.org/announce, if your ISP supports caching, you will see that a caching server is added and your speed will be only limited to your DL rate (as I said, ISP supports and file is available),
cheers

my uttorrent is back on fire. some problems with the lastest comodo firewall update caused utorrent to have network problems. switching to windows firewall didn't helped much. But with these tips, I used comodo with the update and utorrent as works as before,fast and secured.

You stated that adding additional trackers will improve speeds. The best place I've found for additional trackers is torrentz.com. Search for the torrent on that site, and it will usually give you at least 5-10 additional trackers you can add.

INCRDIBLE!!!!! My downloads have gone from 0.2 - 4 kB/s with low seeds, to 20 - 130 kB/s with LOW SEEDS!!! Note that my port ISN'T FORWARDED!!! (well, there were some experimenting with advanced settings, which are not mentioned in the tut tho...)
Can't wait to see what happens when there are HIIIIIGH seeds!! Thanks man!! Truly Thanks!!

this guide works the best from where i've tried several torrent speedguide links. i have usually average of 25kbps d/l unstable, but i'm now having average of 29kbps total d/l speed stable. Tnx, mate!

one tested advice, i have always used 22 as my max upload rate in the global bandwidth limiting in the connection panel in the preferences. it's the best working number for me ever since. which i got from other torrent speedguide links.

That recheck is necessary for consistency reasons. By ending the utorrent process, you will make the situation worse. Let it complete the recheck and it will not happen again unless you end task utorrent or your system crashes.

First. If your country ISP sold a link to your regional "ISP" and then you get your connection from this regional "ISP".
You have no REAL IP. You are behind a proxy. You have no access to a router or port forwarding. When you type http://192.168.1.1 you will access nothing.
All your ports will be closed. There is nothing you can do besides phone calling your regional "ISP" and ask him to open/portforward the ports for you.

But if you live in Europe or North America this situation will hardly occur. Unless you live in a little city far from the big ISPs.

This guide is well written, but it miss what I said.

Some people will have problems and they should know why and what to do.

no http://192.168.1.1 only works on a router and where 192.168 is the last 2 number should be your default gateway click start > run > type cmd.exe > in cmd window type > ipconfig /all when you did that look for default gateway and it should say > 192.168.XX.XX where the X is there the numbers you type open firefox or ie or w/e you prefer and type in the addres bar http://192.168.XX.XX remove the X's and put you default gateway numbers there and press enter or go there you go :)
allso if you have a cable modem it Will not work for you luckly for me i do so i dont have to mess about with all this crap when i wanna open a port

I just wanted to say thanks. I knew a little about torrents to work great while living in America. Now that I have moved to Mexico I was waiting weeks to download one movie. I am still limited by my ISP, but now I am only waiting hours for the same movies.

Thanks for the perfect step by step technical guide; yet I got speed problem :-(
I give an instance; a movie torrent of 700MB, with 40 Seeds and 10 Peers, under a 1MB (optimally 400K) connection, using port 12630; Green sign for network configuration in uTorrent, using LinkSyS ADSL Router WAG200G, forwarded port (both UCP & TCP) 12630; NO firewall installed, neither the router or windows XP, Encrypted indeed; it just has 11K download speed at most(!!!) and 4K upload. None any other programs or files are using the internet while the uTorrent is working.
Please let me know for any probable solution.
By the way, I’m in Malaysia using TMNET (main internet service provider in Malaysia), even can’t download from Malaysian peers for more than 4KB!!! Do you think of any decryption by the ISP? Could it be this much powerful?
Thanks

Try using latest version of uTorrent 1.8 beta. Download it from anywhere e.g filehippo.com. Preserve your setting but better installed any software firewall (try comodo 3 because they have complete guide somewhere) or u will dead! in any moment :) At least when I'm using it (with my streamyx), I got d/l speed up sometimes to 99kB/s and avg. 60kB/s. uTorrent 1.77 sucked a lot and also got highest d/l speed 11 something kB/s.

guys good guide however i noticed after installing the xp patch my speed slowed considerably....then i ran it again and set the value from 100 to 10.....it again increased drastically.....so plz keep in mind when installing the patch to keep 10 as the value and not 100

Another one and it's really simple! I spent many an evening trying like hell to get my torrents to run faster and wasn't getting anywhere. a couple of weeks ago my ex was trying to download at 8pm and he was getting DL speeds like a 512 connection trouble is he's on an 8mb line. We couldn't figure it out and quite randomly whilst trying to figure it I checked the TOC for his ISP it turned out they restrict bandwidth at certain times, in his case 6pm to 9pm. Obviously I checked my ISP and mine is set 7pm to 10pm. I thought it was slower that time of night simply because there were a lot more people online. After posting here last night I remembered so did a test on a well seeded file. During restricted time the file downloaded at 200k, at close to midnight when the restrictions were off the file downloaded at over 400k and sometimes got to 500k on an 8mb line. It might be obvious to some but for those that don't know... most of my previous frustration wasn't from slow downloads but knowing I could download at good speeds and sometimes it would just not do it. HTH

If Utorrent is really slow on Vista (on my computer everything was really slow... I.E, Outlook) try disabling IPv6. Go to Control Panel> Network and Sharing Centre. Click on view Status for your connection, then properties and uncheck Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6) then OK it etc. I didn't need to restart Utorrent or do anything else. The download I was on jumped from 5k right up to 200.

very important info But the most importamt thing is to undesrtand all these values and how to use them in your own internet connection there is no specifc guide just experience and lets not forget to seed

I can't believe how fast the torrents are now!!!!!! WOW!!! GREAT JOB!!! The site to download utorrent 1.7.5 did not have that one, or I couldn't find it, only 1.7.7 and I was doubtful cuz I already had this and it was SO SLOW, but I downloaded it anyway and after doing what you recommended it now works GREAT! I had some torrents already going and those will not speed up, but when I re-downloaded them they go really FAST!! Thanks so much for the hard work you put into this and for making it so easy!!

You sir are a god !!!
Thankyou so much.
After 2 weeks of slowly going through your step by step tutorial, I have managed to finally get this set up correctly after several trys. (due to my own computer ignorance not following proper steps in port forwarding to my router)
Advice to others take it slow and be sure to do each step (you can't skip any) My d-load speeds have went from 1.5 kb/s on a single d-load up to as high as 195 kb/s down to 25 kb/s doing 5 d-loads at once.
Thanks again my new God !!!
Peace

hey man love u
thanks a lot for this awesome information, it has been almost 7 months i was not able to exceed more than 15kbps and to day because of u i am able to get 300kbps that my maximum limit.i am so much excited and happy you are great man thanks.

Wow just hit 450 without the download, took me a while to figure out how to do the static ip on vista, also the dl messed up my comp, using 32, but a reinstall and a static ip later man it was well worth it and thanks a lot for the time and effort man. I couldnt appreciate it more.

I Installed the EventID4226Fix and after i restarted i had no network, and i couldn't access System Restore either, i have essentially screwed my system.. DO NOT FOLLOW THIS ADVICE..... IT WILL SCREW YOUR MACHINE...

great guide. works great at home on my private isp, but at work i am on a college campus... i have access to the router (linksys wrt54gr) and forwarded ports... i have high upload speeds (140 kbps) and low DL speeds (max 5 kbps) icon is yellow, says no incoming connections. any thoughts? thanks again.

Man wat a good job you have done here. I have been hunting for this particular information to get optimal speed in utorrent. finally i found ur link.. thank you very very much. I will always recommend your site to the other. thank you again.

I tried lots of guides. I have test my speed and the test shows 1486 kb/s = 185.74 kBps download speed and 132 kb/s = 16.5 KBps. Question: Anyone has Version DSL for an ISP who completed the guide and notice an increase in download speed? If you have Version DSL and have good download speeds please share your settings so that I can enjoy uTorrent like you.

I am not dumb ;) but your guide was the first one that I was able to follow to the letter (except "preferences->Network"??)
Excellent work keep it up.
Thank you for the effort and time to make my life better.

tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo gud......
i wonder how wer u able to explain it in depth....hats off man...very nice....but still as u say it all ultimately depends upon the seeding.....a torrent file with merely no seeding wud not allow ur precious techniques to work out....but wen there is a handful of seeders ur guide really rox...
thanx dude

This was so helpful...i'm at a university, and my downloads would max out at like 35kb/s....now they are usually well above 100kb/s...the half-open port thing really helped...is there a problem with opening way too many, like lets say 200 or 300? Thank you.

I used to use azureus before but I never had a problem with speeds in default setting, but our isp blocked torrents and encryption wasn't working either.. Now I got new isp but I was only getting under 50 speed, but thanks to this guide im good now :)

I was getting slow speeds. (less than 1kbps). I followed a couple of the suggestions from this guide.
*Enabling Protocol Encryption and Increasing Max Half Open Connections and
*Further Things You Can Try For Optimum Speed
2. To get more peers, right-click the entry on the list, and click Update Tracker

I also ticked the 'randomize port each time utorrent starts'

I think that the isp's also throttle the speed by your IP. So I used a program that hides your ip. Not all the proxies are good. Just change until you find a good one. For Australia I found the Malaysia Ip to be good. Now I am getting speeds which vary (every second) from 1.0 - 4.3kbps. Try it. It might work for you too.

Sry bout the caps, this guide rocks, really nice! I send and DL alot of model pictures and before it was so sloooooooow but not ts great, omg thank you so much, i would BEEP BEEP BEEP if i was near you! Thank you!

awesome man.. i used to get a download speed of 6 kbps, and now i'm able to pull across a transfer rate of 29kbps which goes up to 37kbps during the night.. thanks a lot man..
keep up the awesome work.. the links provided were genuine and reliable..
thanks again..

nice man..i have a 256kbps connection and now with ur technique m getting a speed of 25 kB/s constantly..earlier it use to falter between 22 and 15.
I guess you Are From india...
Apka Dhanyawad!!!!...great work man

AWESOME! i started downloading something and it was dling at like 15kbps and i gave up, came back like an hour later 120 KBPS!!!!! now im averaging out at around 70kbps. But i can't get the port to open ive opened a port on my router and on win firewall but the test keeps on getting an error. I had a green tick while using zone alrm but that was blockin everything so yeaahh im confused but anyway great guide!

This is absolutely amazing. I'm using a wireless connection, so I expect slower download speeds than those I get while using a LAN line, but I was getting speeds around 10kbps, maxing out around 50kbps, and no more than 20kbps upload with a 10Mbps connection! This fixed it up so fast. I was hesitant, even with all the glowing reviews, but my doubts proved unfouded! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

oh and from above ignore the speed part just set everything to (0) unlimited and have 5000 in each number on connections in bittorrent and also in advanced set lazybit to false and on each torrent to 50 as maxim upload and watch it go mad on the downloading.

the best way to port foward is to type in ya ip in the address bar, that a take ya straight to ya router, open the virtual severs and add the port number use 59343 and make sure its the port set in ya client too i.e utorrent its the way i do it and then use that halfopen patch then set to 100 and then 100 on the advanced setting that at least doubles ya speed, mine has gone insane, metal

WOW!!! thats all i can say. my downloading speeds went from in the 0.1's to in the 50's somtimes. and thats with low seeds. cant wait to see what its like with high seeds. turns out it was just my port wasnt open. finally found out password for router :D. Thanks for the guide.

Thanks a lot i had been suffering from too slow download from past one month, now i realized its due to seeding of all previously download materials, so i ahve removed them for a while. More ever i was able to tweak microsoft connection settings as well. Hats off to u

This is a very good guide, but it did nothing for me. I am still getting slow downloads like if I was using a dialup modem 56k HAHA. But it work for some poeple as you can see just by looking at they comments.

good guide but i think the problem was other in the speed guide i selected 256 which gave me around 14kbps but when i did to 512 it gave double the speed so don't think the speed u have is necessary to be put u can select higher speed also believe me it works because it worked for me

this was great info & it increased my DL & UPL speeds unbelievably. But i didn't see any info about Queueing. My Q settings from the top down are 3,2, 150%, (Ignore) and No check marks. Are these settings OK????...or................

WOW! Sweet guide! i followed the port forwarding instructions and BAM! my d/l speed jumped from like freaking 20kB/s to an avg of 150kB/s!!!!!! im like the happiest man on earth now! It no longer takes me like freaking 4hrs just to get 700mb!!! SWEET! Thanks for the tutorial! Very helpful i must say!

Great guide, boosted my abysmal d/l and u/l speeds (roughly 10-25kbps and up to 15kbps) to something vaguely respectable, by my standards, only been looking every now and then but d/l and u/l speeds of around 40-60kbps each glance. I like.

This a great guide, nice 'n' easy. I used to get speeds of 240kbps but then one day it just absolutely screwed up (don't remember what happed) so I came here to try and get back to my con's glory days and it worked! it's back I love my dl speed...

Wow, in about two minutes this had doubled my download speed, and it just keeps going up. Plus I learned a ton about something I knew nothing about. I'm incredibly impressed at the simplicity of this guide. All you need now is a miracle, and they'll make you a computer saint. Nice job!

I'd just like to say thanks.This was really really helpful I was downloading anywhere between 40 -60.Now I'm downloading consistently over 100.Anyone skeptical about downloading the patch and tweaking your comp fear not.You will be very happy if you follow his guide.Once again thanks for this.

The thing is, everything that alters your windows components and similar things can be considered a virus, your antivirus reacts to a program that is trying to change your windows components (which antiviruses consider lethal). So theres nothing to worry about, the changes you do will not alter your computers performance.

Corporate Firewall
Are you running this software in a corporate network? Bad news - you have to inform the admin that you want the port to be directed to your computer. The good news - you can still go by without port forwarding, but speeds will not be optimal.

I tried, and I get an * in front of the value. The same happens when I try to adjust my net max half value. If the value is any thing other than 8 for net max half value or 300 for peer disconect, an * appears in front of the value, and utorrent will not communicate.